Before I was born, I was a hunter, because male DNA is hunter's DNA. Because
the only accurate existential description of the audio arts is that it is
music hunting. Our ferocity in hunting for beauty is now explained. How do
hunters pass on their folk wisdom?

Because I am a renowned authority on the paradoxes of hunting DNA, let me
ask you a QUESTION that may cause insomnia: What kind of hunter is
searching for a de-material three dimensional trophy illusion which is a quantum
representation of his consciousness?

ANSWER: the man who is burdened with the most recent and advanced
mutation of hunter DNA YOU..the gifted listener who is creating
an art form that has no substance is a complete illusion. Our hunter
bros' painted on cave walls with pigment. We are painting on our cave walls,
but this time we are using illusion. Can you get weirder or higher than that?

Talk about cool. Consider the magnitude of your beaudacity : if you reading
this rage you are one tortured dude, and that is the point being a skilled
hunter is not easy. It is extremely demanding. Compare hunting for a grizzly
aural matrix, to shopping for a CD player which is more exciting? We
hunters must study the details of our prey very carefully. Our tools must
work perfectly. We have to keep our senses and agility at the highest level
of awareness. We must be intuitive and persevere, and most importantly because
the game we are pursuing is much bigger and more powerful than we are, we
must have cunning.

To fulfill my tribal responsibility to our young, brave and beaudacious,
I shall reveal one more of my cunning audio hunting tricks.

HOT GLUE, LIKE YOU

As a cunning young hunter I recognized that my mother, who was an artist,
had a valuable skill she was into the hot glue gun in very creative
ways. I don't think there was anything that she didn't try to stick together
in her search for a new objet d'art. For a professional gizmologist, work
with audio gizmos would be impossible without the hot glue gun. The tube savant
must master two different weapons the hot soldering iron, the hot glue
gun and it is the responsibility of every father to teach their son how
to use these tools.

TUBE CREATION OF CEREMONIAL TRIBAL GARB: This is the secret substance
for creating Tube Crowns, and attaching tubes to your clothes, hats, condoms,
furniture. To impress your fellow workers hot glue a tube to a tie. If you
are single and hanging out at bars, hot glue a tube to each of your collar
points and check out what happens.

VINYLMANIACS MANNA: Nothing is better for attaching your phono cartridge
to your headshell in terms of 100 percent mechanical connection. Make sure
the glue is super hot so you only have to use a very ULTRA thin layer. Press
the cartridge body to the tonearm with great force. Hot glue is also one of
the best tuning materials for the Decca cartridge. Any moving magnet cartridge
that has a removal stylus use a tiny glob of hot glue to the side of
cartridge body where the removable style makes contact with the magnet structure.
What is so cool about hot glue is you can easily pop it free. Use hot glue
on your tone arm as dampening try bands and spots. A few tiny dabs will
keep your record mat in place. Why is hot glue such a great dampening device?
Drop a stick and see how dead it is, and it perfectly bonds to the surface
it is applied to.

SPEAKERMANICS. Use for attaching felt to your speaker faces. Use for
building your external passive crossovers. Hot glue on film capacitors can
make them sound better. Use to attach better dampening material to the inside
of your speaker cabinets.

LINE STAGES/PHONO SECTIONS: If you are going to retro-fit grid chokes,
or plate chokes, or capacitors, hot glue can be sued to them in place either
on the chassis or PC board.

DIY PROJECTS: Key your soldering iron and your hot glue gun hot, because
you can use that hot and sticky stuff to keep wires, parts and connections
in their places. I use to keep heavy parts, like plate chokes, the interstage
transformers in place while I am building my prototypes.